It’s getting dark outside earlier, leaves have started changing color and there is a crisp chill in the air. These are some of the signs that Halloween is on its way. There is nothing like hanging out with your family watching a good Halloween movie to get yourself into the Halloween spirit.

So make some popcorn and curl up under some blankets with your family to watch some of these family Halloween movies for kids. Nothing on this list is too scary and they are all family-friendly.

My brother in law actually worked on making this movie. It ties stop-motion and computer animation together for a really cool effect. It came out in 2009 and has a similar feel to Nightmare Before Christmas.

This movie is better for kids who are slightly older, maybe 10+.

This movie is based on a novel written by Neil Gaiman. This scary book was meant for children and teens.

It is about a girl named Coraline, who has moved into an apartment and is bored. She ends up in another world that is almost identical to the world she originally lived in. At first, she loves her new world, but she soon realizes that she needs to get back to her world. My description is very mild compared to the actual movie. The movie is dark and creepy.

This Halloween-themed Winnie the Pooh movie called Pooh’s Heffalump Movie is perfect the younger kids.

Join Pooh, Tigger, Eeyore and the rest of the gang as they have a Halloween adventure in the Hundred Acre Woods. This is a great movie for the younger kids.

As I write this, this movie is currently unavailable for streaming or for purchase through Amazon. This might change at another time and make sure to check Netflix as well. They are constantly adding new content. If you’d like to check the status on Amazon, click here.

If you don’t know who Harry Potter is, he is an 11-year-old boy who finds out he is a wizard and then goes to Hogwarts, which is a school for wizards. He has many adventures at this school. I wouldn’t’ consider the first several of the movies in this series scary, although there are ghosts and such in these.

This is a movie that ties in the history of Halloween to the storyline. It is about 5 friends. Four of them get together on Halloween, but their 5th friend is missing. The four kids then go on a search to find their missing friend.